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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Ball Aerospace, The Kepler Mission , NASA/Ames Research Center Explanation: Observational astronomy has recently provided evidence of the existence of massive Jupiter-sized planets orbiting distant suns, protoplanetary disks of gas and dust surrounding newly formed stars, and planetary bodies orbiting exotic stellar corpses known as pulsars . ... Are there nearby solar systems with Earth-sized planets as well? ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day ...

... Missions . ... Future Missions and . ... Research . ... SIRTF is an 85 cm cryogenic telescope (operated at 5.5 K) to be launched into a heliocentric orbit in 2001 or 2002, with a 2.5-year lifetime. ... SIRTF will search for large planets around nearby stars, and will probe circumstellar dust complexes where planet formation is in progress. ... This presentation will focus on SIRTF planet detection strategies and will provide an update on the technical aspects of the SIRTF instrumental capabilities. ...

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Detected Supernovae . The search have produced till now the detections of 4 SNe. ... This result highlights the power of infrared monitoring in detecting Obscured SNe and indicates that optical surveys are probably missing a significant fraction of SNe, especially in obscured systems such as starburst galaxies. ... In Fig. we show the archival SOFI image of NGC3256 (left) and the first image obtained in 2001 (right) where SN2001db has been detected. ...

... Modern aspects of statistical physics and its applications. The seminar welcomes survey talks by senior researchers for the student audience and, more importantly, talks by students of undergraduate and graduate level on their research in progress. ... Olga STETIUKHINA, MSU Math. ... Anna BODROVA, MSU Physics Dept : Size distribution of particles in the rings of Saturn . ... Misha TAMM, MSU Physics Dept : A queue model (continued) . ... Misha TAMM, MSU Physics Dept : A queue model . ...

... This talk focuses on exploring the connection between Ly absorbers and galaxies. The theorist view of gas in the low z universe is based on the filamentary structures that are evident in simulations based on the CDM paradigm. ... The observer's view of gas in the low-z universe is based on the Ly absorbers which have column densities as low as 10 cm , while galaxies are at column densities of 10 cm . ... The absorber has N cm . ... Can examine LSS defined by gas-rich galaxies around absorbers. ...

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... Astrophysics Group . ... Integration of the NIRSpec instrument . ... SKA AAVS0 array . ... One of the major milestones for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been, in September 2013, the completion by ESA of NIRSpec, the first multi-object spectrograph to be operated in space. ... Cambridge, and in particular the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, is heavily involved in NIRSpec by hosting one of the Instrument Science Team members (R. Maiolino). ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... IAU Publications . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... The Universe in the Classroom . ... Searching for Supernovae To Be . ... Astronomers have pinned their conclusion of an accelerating universe on observations of Type Ia supernovae. ... Einstein had firmly believed that the universe was static and had even added a fudge factor, dubbed the cosmological constant, to make his equations yield a static universe. ...

XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 1 emask November 22, 2004 Abstract Creation of detection mask (from exposure images), marking the area on which source searching will be performed. ... 8 Algorithm Begin subroutine emask Determine maximum of exposure Multiply threshold parameters with exposure maximum xmmsas\_20041122\_1834-6.1.0 XMM-Newton Science Analysis System Page: 3 Loop over image pixels Set pixels of detection mask to 1 if exposure is above cutoff and 0 otherwise. ...

... Up: Telescope and Instrument Control Systems . ... The software is based on a client/server architecture and provides remote access for controlling, monitoring and troubleshooting the array. ... The server software is developed in C++ and runs on a UNIX host machine. ... This computer demonstration consists of remote observing with the Caltech Millimeter Array located at Owens Valley in California to show the feasibility and features of this software package. ... Figure 2: Array Status window. ...

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